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Alleging wrongdoing by anyone inside of the state department? >> correct. the inspector general was basically just saying were sitting on this packet of disinformation which came from some uncertain place and again this is my interpretation of it. there may be misconduct by the secretary of state or other state department employees in distributing this if they know where it comes from and they know that it does not have any authentic source in the white house. but maybe it did come from the whit...

Briefing. our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, the president is going to new extremes as he lashes out about the impeachment investigation. >> reporter: wolf, it looked like a temper tantrum inside the white house as president trump angrily denied any wrongdoing during his phone call with ukraines president. he went after adam schiff accusing him without any evidence of helping to write the whistle-blower com...

Our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is on the scene. jim, the president is clearlyin fury ated by this impeachment probe. >> reporter: it looks like a meltdown in realtime as president trump denied any wrongdoing during his phone call with the ukraine president and went after the house intelligence chairman adam schiff accusing him without evidence of helping write the whistle-blower complaint. kk but the press conference went off the rails when the president was asked why he was talk...

Today a government watchdog heads to capitol hill after making an urgent and highly unusual request to brief several. its connected to documents on ukraine. the i.g.s request came just an hour after secretary of state mike pompeo accused house democrats of, quote, intimidating and bullying state department officials. he said his officials would not have time to prepare that all of this related to the whistle-blower complaint accusing the president of pressing ukraines president over joe biden or...

In the u.s. u.n. mission was terrible which implies, you know, shooting somebody for treason or somebody which is ridiculous. as you indicate john, quickly, intimidating, in fact, a which willing effect on others that may have wrongdoing to report. >> want to read you what senator chuck grassley republican from iowa says about this. the person, talking about the whistle-blower, appears to have followed the whistle-blower protection laws and ought to be heard out and protected. you feel that stat...

Will strengthening the case on obstruction if they behave that way zblmp house speaker, thank you very much. i would like to ask madam speaker and also cha i remember this as well. the president wants to interview the whistle proceeder. he says he has the right to meet his accuser. your response, both of you, please. >> the whistle-blower has the right under the statute to remain anonymous. and we will do everything in our power to make sure that that whistle-blower is protected. >> that that wh...

Theres no evidence of wrongdoing by joe biden or hunter biden. good morning, christine and dave. an urgent request to speak with congressional aides. they will be meeting with them today. we dont know many specifics, however, of what theyre going to scores but they say they were coming because they had received documents from the legal adviseder at the state department. now we should note that the congressional aide also described this request to me as highly unusual, really not laying out man...

House judiciary committee talking about how the inspector general for the state department for this urgent meeting basically just turned over a bunch of propaganda that had been mailed to secretary of state mike pompeo alleging in its pages that these documents, a whole host of conspiracy theories having to do with players in the ukrainian scandal, most notably including ambassador masha yovanovitch who was dismissed by president trump as ambassador to ukraine this year. lets chat about this. le...

Committees will receive whats been described as an urgent briefing from that inspector general. joining us now is one of the lawmakers who will be privy to what results from that meeting. democratic congressman ro qana. thank you very much for being here. you are a wonderful person to talk to today because youre right in the thick of what is happening in congress. what do you know of this inspector general and what he wants to share with congress today? >> its concerning and its highly unusual. ...

Opinion amongst republicans, we could look at his fund-raising numbers from yesterday. there doesnt seem to be cracks in that broader public opinion. >> i think he is becoming more and more aware of the fact that this impeachment inquiry is real. he also watched the speaker of the house, who gets under his skin. we have seen this on policy issues in the past, on the mueller investigation in the past and now on impeachment. heres what she had to say. the president is talking about the whistleblow...